“The Argument for the Remedying of Injustice”
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Joseph Bertrand
Joseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician and historian of science whose work emphasized number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
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science · French mathematician and historian (1822–1900) · mathematician · economist · professor · also Joseph Bertrand, Bertrand
Born 11 March 1822 · Died 5 April 1900 · Q315436
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Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week. We later learned that all the nineteen passengers in the non-smoking compartment had been killed. When the plane had hit the water a hole had been made in the plane and the water had rushed in. I had told a friend at Oslo who was finding me a place that he must find me a place where I could smoke, remarking jocularly,
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“Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God. This remark kept me cheerful for about a week. We later learned that all the nineteen passengers in the non-smoking compartment had been killed. When the plane had hit the water a hole had been made in the plane and the water had rushed in. I had told a friend at Oslo who was finding me a place that he must find me a place where I could smoke, remarking jocularly,”
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1980· 1 entry
“Jokes and their Relation to the Cognitive Unconscious”
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1962· 1 entry
“Statement to young Japanese from the President of The Committee of 100 in Britain”
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1907· 1 entry
“The Regressive Method of Discovering the Premises of Mathematics”
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1900· 1 entry
Died 1900-04-05.
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (1896).
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1884· 1 entry
Career landmark: seat 40 of the Académie française (1884–1900).
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1875· 1 entry
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1875).
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1874· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of the French Academy of Sciences (1874–1874).
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1858· 1 entry
Was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1849· 1 entry
Was the first to define real numbers using what is now termed a Dedekind cut
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1845· 1 entry
That there is at least one prime number between n and 2n − 2 for every n > 3
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1844· 1 entry
Studied at Mines ParisTech (1841–1844).
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1841· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1839–1841).
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1839· 1 entry
Studied at Collège Sainte-Barbe (1839).
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1822· 1 entry
Born 1822-03-11.
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